Tag: Automobility

Free Download Craig Horner, "The Emergence of Bicycling and Automobility in Britain"
English | ISBN: 1350054186 | 2021 | 224 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
In the late 19th century, bicyling and motoring offered new ways for a hardy minority to travel. Escaping from the ‘tyranny’ of the train timetables, these entrepreneurs were able to promote private mobility when the road, technology and infrastructure were unequal to the task. With a moribund network out of town, poor roadside accommodation and few services, how could road traction persist and ultimately thrive?

Free Download Robert Braun, "Post-Automobility Futures: Technology, Power, and Imaginaries"
English | ISBN: 153815885X | 2022 | 226 pages | EPUB, PDF | 504 KB + 4 MB
This book presents an in-depth phenomenological and deconstructive analysis of the automobility imaginary, which is none other than the mundane automobility reality within which we dwell in everyday life. A successful transition to a post-automobility future will require new ways of thinking about and conceptualizing automobility, one of the most significant and powerful imaginaries of contemporary neo-liberalism. This book offers such a view by reconceptualizing automobility in its entirety as both an imaginary and a dreamscape.